''I'm gonna slice and dice cause murder's my vice. I'll stab you once, twice maybe even thrice. Carve initials in your liver. Make you quiver, deliver. Yeah, that'd be nice. I'll
dissect your heart. Rip your entrails apart. Hack off your head. And that's just the start.
— L.I.F.E. Long
Horrorcore rap music is essentially
Gangsta Rap meets Horror Tropes, with a touch of bloodthirsty metal for good measure. There's dispute over where the genre originated, but it's agreed that the
Geto Boys, Ganksta N-I-P,
Brotha Lynch Hung and
Insane Poetry were the forebears of the genre. Horrorcore is more or less gangsta rap turned up to
11. Expect subject matter to cover cannibalism, rape, torture, infanticide, occultism, necrophilia and other horrible things
For the Evulz.
See also
Death Metal,
Gangsta Rap.
Artists in the genre include:
Record labels centered around this genre:
Horrorcore often provides examples of the following tropes:
